HACKING THE URBAN EXPERIENCE WEEK 04

- FINAL DISCUSSION - OVERVIEW OF INFLATABLES

2

3

- FINAL DISCUSSION - OVERVIEW OF INFLATABLES

4 HOT AIR BALLOONS IN LATE 18TH CENTURY FRANCE

90 year cycles, 1870’s, then 1960’s.

5 USMAN HAQUE, BURBLE

Modular pieces assembled and designed by the public

6 USMAN HAQUE, BURBLE

Made of approximately 140 six foot modules

7 USMAN HAQUE, BURBLE

Each baloon contains a sensor and microcontroller and led. Part installation, part performance.

8 SOAP BUBBLES

9 MATRIX OF POTENTIAL SHAPES

10 RAUMLABOR, BERLIN

11 SPACE BUSTER

12 SPACE BUSTER

13 ANT FARM, TRUCKIN’ UNIVERSITY

Trucks provide mobile, nomadic power, the net provides wind protection.

14 ANT FARM, MEDIA VAN

15 ANT FARM, DREAM CLOUD

Highly photogenic, kinetic architecture that was a screen for image projections and minimal shelter.

16 DALLEGRET, ENVIRONMENTAL BUBBLE

Banham’s un-house, pneumatic bubble allows the user to live the life of a modern nomad.

17 ANT FARM, SPARE TIRE

18 ANT FARM, CLEAN AIR POD

19 ANT FARM, TURBO POD

20 JOSE MIGUEL DE PRADA POOLE, INSTANT CITY

Expandable, modular pneumatic village. Based on a “grammar of form.”

21 JOSE MIGUEL DE PRADA POOLE, INSTANT CITY

Expandable, modular pneumatic village. Based on a “grammar of form.”

22 INFLATABLE KINDERGARTEN

23 DAVIS, BRODY, CHERMAYEFF, USA PAVILLION FOR EXPO ‘70, OSAKA

24 DAVIS, BRODY, CHERMAYEFF, USA PAVILLION FOR EXPO ‘70, OSAKA

25 EVENTSTRUCTURE RESEARCH GROUP, CLOUD

A closed membrane with additional point support. Includes a large number of wrinkles, due to no predetermined cutting pattern.

26 RALPH BORLAND, SUITED FOR SUBVERSION

27 GERALDINE HUSSON, HYBRID OBJECTS

28 AEOLIAN RIDE, BROOKLYN RIDE

Wind inflated suits.

29 POLYETHYLENE

Drop cloth plastic, also available at mattress stores.

30 RIPSTOP NYLON

Used in kites, parachutes, etc.

31 TAPE

32 ANT FARM, INFLATOCOOKBOOK

- REVIEW ASSIGNMENT 02 - OVERVIEW OF INFLATABLES - 4 PRECEDENTS

33

34 ParaSITE, Michael Rakowitz

Question: How to provide temporary shelter for homeless people?

35

Question: Can loopholes in zoning/permits provide opportunities?

Scaffolding Capsule, Santiago Cirugeda

36

Question: What materials lend themselves to a distributed, adaptable mobile pavilion?

Bucky Bar, Studio for Unsolicited Architecture

37

Question: How to take advantage, give new life to underutilized urban space?

Assemble, Folly for a Flyover